According to Hawaii pastor Cal Chinen's church newsletter, on the first Wednesday of every month leaders from Transformation Hawaii join Hawaii's Lt. Governor James "Duke" Aiona in his official conference room and pray. Aiona is running for the Hawaii governor's seat in the 2010 election.

Transformation Hawaii is a local chapter of a sprawling international ministry called the International Transformation Network. Based in Minneapolis, the ITN has been linked to the effort behind Uganda's notorious Bill #18 before the Ugandan Parliament that gay rights activists have dubbed the "kill the gays bill."

Duke Aiona has participated in Transformation Hawaii rallies against a Hawaii civil unions bill and in December 2004 Aiona, speaking from a Hawaii public school in a telecast statewide prayer event, declared that "Hawaii belongs to Jesus."

But the Transformation Hawaii interpretation of Christianity, as evidenced in the following excerpt of an interview with one of the founders of the effort, Cal Chinen, is somewhat less than mainstream. In the interview, Chinen gleefully describes how Christmas and Santa Claus have been banished from a suburb of Buenos Aires.